Rafiqul Islam Miah is a Bangladeshi barrister and politician. He served as the State Minister for Labour and Manpower and later as
Minister of Housing and Public Works in the
first Khaleda Zia cabinet during 1991–1996.
He also served as Minister of Education in the government formed after the
February 1996 Bangladeshi general election
General elections were held in Bangladesh on 15 February 1996. They were boycotted by most opposition parties, and saw voter turnout drop to just 15%.Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) ''Elections in Asia: A data handbook, V ...
.
Career
In September 2007, Miah served as the lawyer of
Begum Khaleda Zia
Begum Khaleda Zia (born August–September 1945) is a Bangladeshi politician who served as the prime minister of Bangladesh from 1991 to 1996 and again from 2001 to 2006. She was the first female prime minister of Bangladesh and the second fema ...
when she was arrested on charges of corruption and misuse of power. In 2008 Rafiqul represented the
Bihari community in Bangladesh
Stranded Pakistanis in Bangladesh (, , ) are East Pakistani Urdu-speaking Muhajirs who emigrated from present-day India (then part of British India), and settled in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) following the partition of India in 1947.
Thi ...
as they were granted citizenship status by
High Court of Bangladesh
The High Court Division, Supreme Court of Bangladesh (), popularly known as High Court, is one of the two divisions of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, the other division being the Appellate Division. It consists of the Chief Justice of Banglad ...
. He is currently a member of the National Standing Committee of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.
Conviction
In 2001,
Anti-Corruption Commission of Bangladesh sent Miah a notice to submit his wealth statement. Failure to comply with that notice, in January 2004, led a case filed against him. On 19 November 2018, he was sentenced to three years in prison and was arrested from his Eskaton home the same day . On 26 November, he secured a six-month bail from the High Court which also stayed the fines.
References
Living people
Bangladeshi barristers
Bangladesh Nationalist Party politicians
Ministers of housing and public works of Bangladesh
Date of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
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